Improvement in paper-fasteners and card-suspenders



G. K. SNOW; Paper-Fastener and Card-Suspender. N0. 168,536 I PatentedOct-5.1875.

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N PETERS, PNOTO-LITHOGRIPNER. WASHINGTON. D C.

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GEORGE K. snow OF WATEBTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TOMARY J. snow, orsAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-FASTENERS ANDCARD-SUSPENDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,536, datedOctober5, 1875; application filed September 12, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE K. SNOW, of Watertown, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulPaper-Fastener and Gard-Suspender, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification I Myinvention relates to a new article of manufacture to be used forsecuring together a series of detached or separate sheets of paper intoa single connected package for convenience of preservation andreference, and also adapted to be applied to cards, pamphlets, and otherlight articles, as a means of hanging or suspending the same and itconsists in the formation, from cloth, parchment, leather, or otherflexible material, of pieces cut to any desired exterior shape, eithersquare,

oblong, oval, or otherwise, with a slit cut around two or three sides ofthe central portion of one-half, so as to form a tongue attached at onesideto the main piece, along which line of junction it is to be foldedfor use, said piece of flexible material being secured to the articleupon which jit is to be used I by means of gum, glue, or other suitableadhesive material, which may be applied at the time of manufacturing orat the time of applying the device to use, as will be more particularlydescribed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents one form of my invention as appliedto securing several sheets of paper together, and also as a means ofhanging up or suspending said papers, if desired. Fig. 2 represents theopposite side of the same; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section, on linea: w on Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 represent three different formsof my device, essentially the same in princi-, ple, and to be applied inthe same manner.

A represents my improved paper-fastener and card-suspender, providedwith the tongue A formed by cutting a curved or angular slit through A,leaving the part A connected to A, as shown.

These fasteners may be made of various exterior forms, and from variousmaterials, such, for instance, as linen or cotton cloth, parchment, thinleather, or any flexible material of sufficient strength that issusceptible of being secured firmly to paper by gum, glue, or otheradhesive material.

I propose to cut the fasteners, by means of dies, from a sheet or web ofsuitable material, and sell them to the trade in packages of, say, onehundred or one thousand, eitherwith or without coating one side thereofwith gum or other adhesive material, though I prefer gumming thematerial in the sheet or web, and allowing it to dry before cutting outthe fasteners.

The manner of. applying my improved fasteners and card-suspenders is asfollows For the purpose of suspension of show-cards, caleudars, andother articles, the guinmed side of the fastener is moistened, and thepart A is pressed upon thefront of the card or other article to besuspended, and the tongue A is folded over the edge of the card and madeto adhere to the back side thereof, while the part.

A projects beyond the edge of the card, and in the form of a loop, asseen in Figs. 1 and 2.

When used for the purpose of fastening together several sheets of paper,the sheets 0 age placed in position, one above another, in their properorder, andone or more slits, B B, are cut through the several sheets, atright angles to their surfaces, through each of which is passed one ofthe tonguesA which is secured by gum, paste, or other suitable adhesivematerial, to the back sheet of paper, while the parts A and A aresecured in like manner to the front sheet, or vice versa.

What Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is A paper-fastener and cardsuspender having tongue A cut fromits body and turned down, leaving the loop A, all formed from a singlepiece of cloth, leather, or other flexible material, susceptible ofbeing secured to sheets of paper by means of gum, glue, or otheradhesive material, all as and for the purpose described.

Executed at Boston, Massachusetts, this 8th day of September, 1874.

GEO. K. SNOW.

Witnesses:

N. G. LOMBARD, WM. P. EDWARDS.

